su -?? to root

Darkpunk · n00b Joined: 24 Mar 2007 Posts: 4

Hey,

I just finished install gentoo!!! I had a few problems with my kernel and modules and so on but i believe i got it going good. I was also able to get into gnome with alot of searching these forums for help with mouse modules and keyboard modules!!! oh man it was rough but i learned tons!! But i have a question that is starting to bug me alot! I searched and searched and come up with nothing so my question is Why can't I su - to root? whenever i try I get Permission Denied? Its like its not accepting my password? I can login to the system fine i can start gnome fine and login to gnome with root fine. But when I try anything such as Root Terminal and it asks me for my password that wont work. Or if i use the adduser program from gnome and it asks for a password it says permission denied as well? Anyone know why this is happening I KNOW my password is correct!!

Thanks

Matt

vadik56 · n00b Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Posts: 70

You must be in "wheel" group to be able to su to root.

mark_alec · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:25 am Post subject:

Moved from Desktop Environments to Duplicate Threads.

See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-23378.html
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